Jocelin from Furness

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Jocelin von Furness ( bl. 1175-1214) was an English Cistercian hagiographer who is known for his biographies of Saints Waltheof von Melrose , Patrick of Ireland , Kentigern and Helena .

Life

Jocelin was a monk at Furness Abbey (now Barrow-in-Furness , Cumbria ). He translated or adapted Celtic hagiographic material for Anglo-Norman readers. He wrote the book Life of St. Kentigern or Mungo , ( Vita S. Kentgerni ) for Jocelin , Bishop of Glasgow , and for John de Courcy and Tommaltach, Bishop of Armagh , the book Life and Acts of St. Patrick ( Vita S. Patricii ). His Life of St. Waldeve, Second abbot of Melrose ( Vita S. Waldevi ) was written to promote the cult of a former abbot of Melrose († 1159). His Life of St. Helen ( Vita S. Helenae ) was probably commissioned by a nunnery in England. In addition, the "Book of British bishops" is attributed to him.

It is also claimed that he was also the architect and abbot of Rushen Abbey , but this is only one hypothesis among several.

expenditure

  • Alexander Penrose Forbes (translator and ed.), Lives of S. Ninian and S. Kentigern , Edinburgh 1874
  • George McFadden (Ed.), An Edition and Translation of the Life of Waldef, Abbot of Melrose, by Jocelin of Furness , unpublished thesis, Columbia University, 1952
  • Ingrid Sperber, Ludwig Bieler (Ed.), Life of St Patrick , in: Anthony Harvey, Angela Malthouse (Ed.) Royal Irish Academy Archive of Celtic-Latin literature , (2nd extended edition, ACLL-2)
  • Ingrid Sperber, Clare Downham (transl.), The Life of St Helena by Jocelin of Furness , in: Antonia Harbus (Ed.), Helena of Britain in Medieval Legend , Cambridge: Brewer, 2002 ( online, accessed May 25, 2019 )

Secondary literature

  • Helen Birkett, The Saints Lives of Jocelin of Furness: Hagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics , Woodbridge 2010, ISBN 978-1-903153-33-8
  • Clare Downham (Ed.), Jocelin of Furness: Essays from the 2011 Conference , Donington 2013, ISBN 978-1-907730-33-7
  • John Thomas Gilbert, Jocelin (fl. 1200) , in: Dictionary of National Biography , 1885–1900, Volume 29, 1885.
  • Cynthia Whidden Green, Saint Kentigern, Apostle to Strathclyde: a critical analysis of a northern saint , in: Medieval Sourcebook ( online )
  • Gearóid MacNiocaill: Jocelin v. Furness . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 5, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-8905-0 , Sp. 492.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ John T. Koch (2006), Celtic Culture. A historical encyclopedia , p. 1037.
  2. ↑ Kevin Knight, "Furness Abbey" ( online, accessed May 25, 2019 )
  3. ↑ "Houses of cistercian monks: The abbey of Furness" ( online, accessed May 25, 2019 )
  4. ↑ Isle of Man natural history and antiquarian society, annual meeting, April 16, 1914 ( online, accessed May 25, 2019 )
personal data
SURNAME Jocelin from Furness
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jocelyn of Furness
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English Cistercian hagiograph
DATE OF BIRTH before 1175
DATE OF DEATH after 1214